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" Lambent traces : "
Stanley Corngold.
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BL
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1029853
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b784223
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Corngold, Stanley.
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Lambent traces : : Franz Kafka /\ Stanley Corngold.
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Princeton, NJ :: Princeton University Press,, ©2004.
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1 online resource (xviii, 262 pages)
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1282129546
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: 1400826136
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: 6612129549
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: 9781282129542
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: 9781400826131
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: 9786612129544
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0691118167
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9780691118161
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9780691127804
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Preface; Abbreviations for Kafka Citations; Introduction: Beginnings; CHAPTER 1 In the Circle of "The Judgment"; CHAPTER 2 The Trial: The Guilt of an Unredeemed Literary Promise; CHAPTER 3 Medial Interferences in The Trial Or, res in Media; CHAPTER 4 Allotria and Excreta in "In the Penal Colony"; CHAPTER 5 Nietzsche, Kafka, and Literary Paternity; CHAPTER 6 Something to Do with the Truth Kafka's Later Stories; CHAPTER 7 "A Faith Like a Guillotine" Kafka on Skepticism; CHAPTER 8 Kafka and the Dialect of Minor Literature; CHAPTER 9 Adorno's "Notes on Kafka" A Critical Reconstruction.
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On the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story "The Judgment," which came out of him "like a regular birth." This act of creation struck him as an unmistakable sign of his literary destiny. Thereafter, the search of many of his characters for the Law, for a home, for artistic fulfillment can be understood as a figure for Kafka's own search to reproduce the ecstasy of a single night. In Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka, the preeminent American critic and translator of Franz Kafka traces the implications of Kafka's literary breakthrough. Kafka's first concern was not his responsibili.
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Kafka, Franz,1883-1924-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Kafka, Franz,1883-1924-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Kafka, Franz,1883-1924
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German literature.
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German literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- German.
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833/.912
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PT2621.A26Z6645 2004eb
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